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'Ineptocracy' of the takers

Updated:
01/28/2013 08:10:10 PM EST

A wise man once said "the price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." I do not believe it is necessarily the conscious intent of our elected leaders to facilitate this process from a place of critical thought; but rather from a place of personal conviction.

Personal conviction, history has proved, has time and time again produced tyrants, maniacal and bent on the personal preposition of selfishness; simply because the populace they have sworn to protect, and serve, has been silent.

This silence originates from many points, but always ends in tragedy. The silence of the populace is often preceded by times of great opulence, as well as times of great solace and statism which, as history as proven, digresses into a form of fascist oligarchy. And now, in the present age, into a form of authoritarianism controlled by corporatism.

This process leads, as we see today in our country, to a system of outward governance best coined as "ineptocracy," where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

Not only our country but our states, towns, cities, boroughs and hamlets are at a point of critical mass.

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As we witness the fall of education and the rise of indoctrination in our public education system; as we witness the daily denial of the state of systemic human depravity, the lack of moral consciousness, being blamed on tangible tools instead of on the hearts of men, whose intentions are selfish and evil - we lie on the precipice of the implosion of our democracy, gone the way of the republic which proceeded it.

Meanwhile, we sit by and allow the symptoms from which our ailments are birthed be medicated instead of "treated."